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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
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Self/your self

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If "being" is inherently free of any attachments, then it really doesn't matter if any aspect of a self persists or if the entire self fails to survive altogether.

--- Do you think that "self" here means the same as "ego"?

Try to discern how what you experience as your self or what you generate as experiences from

your self ...

--- Do you think that "your self" and "yourself" means the same thing?
  

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-- Could be. Such books often generate their own definitions, however. -- I think that the writer wants to make a distinction.

  • -- Could be.
  • Such books often generate their own definitions, however.
  • -- I think that the writer wants to make a distinction.
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-- Do you think that "self" here means the same as "ego"?-- Could be. Such books often generate their own definitions, however.

--- Do you think that "your self" and "yourself" means the same thing?-- I think that the writer wants to make a distinction.
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Mister MicawberDo you think that "your self" and "yourself" means the same thing?-- I think that the writer wants to make a distinction.[/quote
Hi

Like for example: "your self" = "your ego" and "yourself" = just "you".

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